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Jennifer Habley CHICAGO – The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) seeks statements from school districts, universities, education service centers or others interested in hosting a satellite site of the AASL 2012 Fall Forum. If interested, parties should submit a one-page Statement of

CHICAGO- The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association, has added more informative and engaging websites to Great Web Sites for Kids (www.ala.org/greatsites), its online resource containing hundreds of links to exceptional websites for

Laura Schulte-Cooper Program Officer, Communications lschulte@ala.org CHICAGO — The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association, has added more sites to Great Websites for Kids, its online resource featuring hundreds of links to exceptional

Laura Schulte-Cooper Program Officer, Communications lschulte@ala.org CHICAGO — The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association, has added more sites to Great Websites for Kids, its online resource containing hundreds of links to exceptional

Laura Schulte-Cooper CHICAGO- Great Websites for Kids (GWS) (www.ala.org/greatsites), the Association for Library Service to Children’s (ALSC) online website directory, has been completely redesigned. The updated site boasts a fresh and colorful kid-friendly look and interactive social media

CHICAGO – The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) is expanding the educational reach of its biennial Fall Forum by offering registrants the opportunity to attend via one of four satellite sites. AASL’s national institute, “Transliteracy and the School Library Program,” will take place

Laura Schulte-Cooper CHICAGO- The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), has added more recommended websites to Great Web Sites for Kids (www.ala.org/greatsites), its online resource containing hundreds of links to outstanding

Laura Schulte-Cooper CHICAGO-- The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), has added recommended Web sites to Great Web Sites for Kids (www.ala.org/greatsites), its online resource containing hundreds of links to outstanding Web

Laura Schulte-Cooper Program Officer, Communications lschulte@ala.org CHICAGO —The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association, has added more sites to Great Websites for Kids, the online resource featuring hundreds of links to exceptional

Jennifer Habley Manager, Web Communications jhabley@ala.org CHICAGO – The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) will once again host a hybrid presentation of its biennial national institute, the Fall Forum, in 2014. As part of the presentation, three or four satellite sites across the

Publishers Weigh In On The Future of Ebooks Publisher’s Weekly posted an article on its blog that allowed various publishing industry professionals from a variety of outlets to expand on the generally accepted prediction that ebooks will make up 50% of to ...

The Rise of e-Reading Lee Rainie, Kathryn Zickuhr, Kristen Purcell, Mary Madden, and Joanna Brenner Pew Institute April 4, 2012 21% of Americans have read an e-book. The increasing availability of e-content is prompting some to read more than in the past ...

eBooks on Demand (EOD): a European digitization service Mühlberger, Günter & Gstrein, Silvia. IFLA Journal; 2009, Vol. 35 Issue 1, p35-43. Within the framework of the European Union funded project Digitization on Demand (2006-2008), the eBooks on De ...

History of the Ebook: The Changing Face of Books Laura Manley & Robert P. Holley. Technical Services Quarterly. Volume 29, Issue 4, 2012 DOI:10.1080/07317131.2012.705731 The history of the ebook and e-readers began before World War II with Vannevar Bu ...

Publishers Weekly: “E-Books Rock,” by Daisy Maryles For the first time in PW 's 100+ years of annual features on bestsellers, the magazine collected statistics on e-book sales. This first report was spotty, since many publishers declined to share th ...